From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199910111704.NAA05891@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] Next release is 7.0(?)
In-Reply-To: <199910111656.KAA17620@biology.nmsu.edu> from Brook Milligan at
	"Oct 11, 1999 10:56:30 am"
To: Brook Milligan <brook@biology.nmsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:04:56 -0400 (EDT)
CC: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, ser@perio.unlp.edu.ar,
	pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
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>    > I hope we don't have a consensus on this. Long commands with
>    > underscores in them are certainly another sign of the coming
>    > apocalypse ;)
> 
>    But if we keep symlinks to the existing names, is that OK?
> 
> Isn't the point to avoid naming conflicts.  Symlinks won't help that,
> surely.
> 
> I agree; underscores are a pain.  If you must go this direction, I
> suggest hyphens (-).

You could make the actual command pg_createuser, and make a symlink of
createuser, but allow the symlink creation to fail.  Best of both
worlds, I think.  I vote for underscore.  That's what I normally use. 
Dashes look too much like command arguments.

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